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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
Book Image

Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By: Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel

Overview of this book

Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its variety of powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 5 for effectively monitoring the performance of devices and applications over networks. The book starts by guiding you through the installation of Zabbix and using the Zabbix frontend. You'll then work your way through the most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. The book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use the Zabbix API for customization and manage your Zabbix server and database efficiently. Finally, you'll find quick solutions to the common and not-so-common problems that you may encounter in your everyday Zabbix monitoring work. By the end of this Zabbix book, you’ll have learned how to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and be able to build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Creating user groups

To log in to the Zabbix frontend, we are going to need users. Right now, we are logged in with the default user, which is logical because we need a user to create users. This isn't a safe setup though, because we don't want to keep using zabbix as a password. So, we are going to learn how to create new users and group them accordingly.

It's important to choose how you want to manage users in Zabbix before setting up user accounts. If you want to use something such as LDAP or SAML, it's a smart idea to make the choice to use one of those authentication methods right away, so you won't have any migration trouble.

Getting ready

Now that we know how the Zabbix UI is structured and we know how to navigate it, we can start doing some actual configuration. We'll start out by creating some user groups to get familiar with the process and start using them. This way, our Zabbix setup gets not only more structured but also more secure...